You know they got me in this prison of seclusion Happiness, living on the is a delusion a smooth criminal one day must get caught Shot up or shot with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' about what the streets do to me
'Cause they never peace in the black community All we is violence, do the job in silence Walk the streets like a rat pack of tyrants Too many brothers daily for the big pen Niggas out worse off then when they went in Over the years I done a lot of up Gettin' drunk up up Then I I had enough There must be route, way out To money and fame, I my name And played a different Tired of being trapped in this vicious If one more cop me I just might go psycho And I get 'em hit 'em with the bum rush Only a lunatic like to see his skull crushed Yo, if your you'll really let me go 'G' But me cooped up in this ghetto and catch the Uzi They got me
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) got me trapped (Naw, can't keep the black man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) (Naw, can't keep the black man down)
They got me Can barely the city streets a cop harassing me, searching me Then my identity Hands up, throw me up against the Didn't do a at all I'm tellin' you one day these suckers fall Cuffed up throw me on the try to kill me But they didn't know was the wrong street bang, down another casualty But it's a cop who's shot there's Who do you It's a because the mans slain He got caught in the chains of his own How can I guilty after all the things they did to me Sweated me, me Trapped in my own One day I'm gonna Blow up on society Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't find a of equality Work me like a slave they laid back Homie don't play time I lett 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to avoid physical I can't back, it's time to attack jack They got me
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) got me trapped (Naw, they can't keep the man down) (Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) (Naw, they can't the black man down)
Now I'm and want to find a getaway All I is a 'G' and somewhere safe to stay Can't use the 'Cause I'm sure is tappin' in Did it scared to use my gat again I back at hindsight the fight was irrelevant But now the devils friend Too late to be him He shot first and be damned if I run away is done away I should of put my gun away I wasn't thinkin' all I heard was the Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn homies is you" I fired my steppin' in the hurricane I got shot so I Feelin' a of pain Got to my Couldn't see nothin' but bloody Now I'm a fugitive to be hunted a murderer Ran through an lookin' for my getaway Coppers said Freeze, or you'll be today in a corner Dark and I see the light Thoughts in my mind was the nine and a life do I do? Live my life in a cell I'd rather die then be in a living hell They got me
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they can't the black man down) (Uh uh, they keep the black man down) You they got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down)